Initial Struggle Quotes

The Communists were the only ones who helped us at the beginning of our struggle.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Everything that is now easy for you was once hard in the beginning

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

The first time I worked out I almost threw up. I did not feel good at all. My friend said, 'You have to get past the first month, you're going to feel so much better.' And she was right: After about 30 or 40 days, I saw changes.

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

I did the utility thing at first out of necessity to find a place on the team.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it’s really a false start is when you start … it’s hard to put into words.

When I came to the NFL, I was just trying to make the team.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

I just remember that when I started at NXT, I had no character. I had nothing. I was just so excited to be here and just to be a wrestler.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.